Management Accountant

Management Accountant Ross-on-Wye Permanent up to 38,000 Hybrid working

Responsible for all financial aspects of management reporting and project control, working in conjunction with operational managers, project staff and other members of the finance team to ensure reliable & accurate financial reporting.

Assisting the Financial Controller to fulfil the needs and obligations of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation of the monthly Management Accounts to strict deadlines, including supporting analysis and investigation into variances.
• Reconciliation of key Balance Sheet accounts.
• Liaising with operational staff to maintain up to date sales forecasts and margin analysis.
• Reporting of project performance including Actual and Forecast vs Budget, with ongoing analysis of the progress of key projects, variance analysis, forecasting, and planning.
• Creation, maintenance and evolution of control spreadsheets and reconciliations to support operational project analysis.
• Preparation of business cases to support exceptional expenditure (e.g. CAPEX)
• Work closely with department leaders to produce an annual budget and monitor throughout the year to highlight variances.
• Prepare and maintain accurate cashflow forecasting.
• Preparation of reconciliations and schedules at the year-end in preparation for the audit process.
• Monthly and Annual reporting to include year end and audit support.
• Providing Financial Support as part of a team in the creation of project bids and tenders, including the production of project budgets and forecasts, confirming financial accuracy, production of project cashflow forecasting, adherence to local taxation and regulatory matters, where necessary, and providing financial scenario planning.
• Continuous development and improvements on the financial processes in order to support all above activities.
• Aid with the implementation and transition to a new accounting system.
• Ad hoc tasks to support Finance and Operations.

This list is not exclusive or exhaustive and the role requires undertaking tasks as may be reasonably expected within the scope of the position.

Knowledge

• Previous experience of Sage 200 - Desirable
• Creation of Management accounts from company records - Essential

Skills

• Numerate with excellent attention to detail - Essential
• Ability to explain financial information to non-financial people - Essential
• Organised and able to work on own initiative and as part of a team - Essential
• Excellent IT skills, particularly excel and graphs - Essential
• Variance analysis - Desirable
• Commercial awareness and focus - Desirable

Experience

• Experience preparing accounts from prime records - Essential
• Experience in project accounting - Desirable
• Project costing variance analysis including standard costing - Desirable

Qualifications

• Experience of a management account function - Essential
• Qualified AAT - Essential

For further information, please contact Rhian Mountjoy

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